On this week's Just Some Punk Songs show, pretty much all the songs seemed to go down well with the chatroom but maybe a few stood out. I'll get them on here this week. Starting with...
Bad//Dreems (https://www.facebook.com/badbaddreems) have been around since 2012 but I don't recollect coming across them before (which on the evidence of their new single is a great shame). They're from Adelaide and the single is about truth telling, in particular about the lack of truth told in schools about Australia's subjugation of the native Aborigines and the attempt to whitewash history. As the lyrics say, you never get taught about invasion or genocide, you might hear about the Russian Revolution but events closer to home are ignored.
At this point in my write up I'd probably be banging on about how Australia has turned up another great new band but as they've been around for a decade instead I'll suggest that you should follow my example and acquaint yourselves with their back catalogue https://baddreems.bandcamp.com/music
Begin with the new single. It's called Jack...
I’ve got an itch that I cannot scratch
Right down in the middle of this ageing back
Three things that we cannot say
Invasion, genocide, Australia Day.
We’re the violence
we’re the godsend
we’re the Virus
We’re the wokest,
we’re the leftest
we’re the silence
Look at the ground, what do I see
60,000 years staring back at me
What you think about that Jack?
31 years and I’m talking back
What you think about that Jack
60,000 why don’t we give it back?
At my school, they taught the Russian revolution,
The stump jump plough and the Roman constitution
No Bennelong, Namatjira, no William Barak
Beds are burning always gotta give it back?
No Truganini, Jandamurra, no Billy Barlow,
No referendum, stolen children, no Eddie Mabo
No language, no treaty, no respect for the land
No problems, no solution, nowhere left to stand
What you think about that Jack?
31 years and I’m talking back
What you think about that Jack?
60,000 years we gotta give it back
I took a walk down to the lighthouse today
Looking for a plaque there that should say
That 14 were massacred here on this day
Women and children cut down where they lay
How deep are your pockets?
How deeps your coal mine?
Nothing is as deep as the deepest of time.
Menzies ghost on the dock of the bay,
sitting in our arm chairs sipping chardonnay
Barriers and bands and frontier walls,
Made an effort to silence the voices of old
What you think about that jack?
Right down in the middle of this ageing back
Three things that we cannot say
Invasion, genocide, Australia Day.
We’re the violence
we’re the godsend
we’re the Virus
We’re the wokest,
we’re the leftest
we’re the silence
Look at the ground, what do I see
60,000 years staring back at me
What you think about that Jack?
31 years and I’m talking back
What you think about that Jack
60,000 why don’t we give it back?
At my school, they taught the Russian revolution,
The stump jump plough and the Roman constitution
No Bennelong, Namatjira, no William Barak
Beds are burning always gotta give it back?
No Truganini, Jandamurra, no Billy Barlow,
No referendum, stolen children, no Eddie Mabo
No language, no treaty, no respect for the land
No problems, no solution, nowhere left to stand
What you think about that Jack?
31 years and I’m talking back
What you think about that Jack?
60,000 years we gotta give it back
I took a walk down to the lighthouse today
Looking for a plaque there that should say
That 14 were massacred here on this day
Women and children cut down where they lay
How deep are your pockets?
How deeps your coal mine?
Nothing is as deep as the deepest of time.
Menzies ghost on the dock of the bay,
sitting in our arm chairs sipping chardonnay
Barriers and bands and frontier walls,
Made an effort to silence the voices of old
What you think about that jack?
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